Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook « Interestings | Your daily dose of links. Facebook privacy policies keep going down the drain. That’s enough reason for many to abandon it. Here you will find nine more: After some reflection, I’ve decided to delete my account on Facebook. I’d like to encourage you to do the same. 10. Let’s start with the basics. 9. From the very beginning of Facebook’s existence, there are questions about Zuckerberg’s ethics . 8. Founder and CEO of Facebook, in defense of Facebook’s privacy changes last January: “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. 7. At the same time that they’re telling developers how to access your data with new APIs, they are relatively quiet about explaining the implications of that to members.
Check out this excellent timeline from the EFF documenting the changes to Facebook’s privacy policy. 6. 5. At this point, all your data is shared with applications that you install. 4. 3. 2. 1. More great articles Feedbox Trackbacks. It is the opinion of us and our lawyers... The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay is the largest torrent website in the world. According to the RIAA, it rates somewhere between Nazi Dinosaurs and The League of Extraordinary Evil on the Global Threat Scale.
&&(navigato Just The Facts No matter how you cut it, The Pirate Bay is ultimately just a collection of thieves. However, its chief rival is the RIAA: An even larger and more vicious collection of thieves. Which makes TPB the lesser of two evils - kind of like Robin Hood. Cracked on the Pirate Bay Pirate Bay, huh? Wait, that's not The Pirate Bay; this is the Pirate Bay: So overall, it's less swashbuckling anti-hero than it is Swedish metal fans who are good with computers.
So if you don't truly grasp the concept of intellectual property or only read up to the seventh commandment, you can use these things to download tons of music for free. The continuing operation of The Pirate Bay is chiefly a triumph for enemies of the RIAA, which, by our last count, is everyone who isn't the RIAA. Legal Issues. Piracy trumps obscurity - proof of piracy boosting sales | ideas for promoting and selling art from the lazarus corporation. Here’s a short illustrated story for you: Steve Lieber is a comic book artist.
He drew Underground , a graphic novel (written by Jeff Parker, drawn by Steve, and colored by Ron Chan). The story follows Park Ranger Wesley Fischer as she tries to save Stillwater Cave – and then has to save herself. On Sunday (3 days ago, as of time of writing) a fan posted scans of every single page onto 4chan (EDIT: archive of the 4chan thread on Steve Lieber’s site ), a well-known discussion forum. Yup, all Steve’s work is now out there for free. Steve found out via a message on Twitter. He didn’t go mad. He didn’t call in the lawyers. Instead he went to the forum and joined in the discussion: Techdirt have a much-used phrase for this: “ Connect with Fans “. Yesterday Steve posted a blog post – Whole book for free; or learning from 4Chan – explaining what had been happening. What happened next? This has all happened in the past 3 days: a huge surge in sales thanks to “piracy”.
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